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French firms fight oil slicks.

New technologies are being developed in France to fight against oil slicks. The goals are both to prevent oil slicks and to keep seas clean. France is particularly vulnerable to oil slicks because of its exposure to the heavily trafficked waterways off its coast.

Stainless steel booms

developed by Gilbert Parcollet, president and CEO of the French company Djet, keep burning oil slicks contained in ports, rivers, or straits. Turkey and Russia have bought several hundred yards of these booms to protect their waterways.

Djet also designed fabric-covered steel rollers that remove tar from beaches without picking up much sand, a technology that was used on Spanish shores when the tanker Prestige sank in 2002.

At Cedre (Center for Documentation, Research, and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution) researchers are focusing their work on dispersants. Dispersants work on light crudes (not heavy fuel oils) to disperse hydrocarbons into fine particles. This enables natural bacteria found in the environment to more-quickly break down the pollution.

Another innovation to help keep the seas clean the Thomsea trawl prototype, invented by a French fisherman. It consists of a net pulled by two boats and equipped with floating booms that guide the oil inwards.

Source: French Technology Press Office, 205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740, Chicago, Illinois 60601. Telephone 1-312-237-5260.

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